String encoding conversions in Julia using iconv

Installation

Make sure iconv is installed on your system, then

using Pkg
pkg"add Iconv"

On Windows, you can install iconv using Scoop

scoop install iconv

Usage

iconv("笨熊", "UTF-8", "GBK") == togbk("笨熊") == g"笨熊"
iconv(g"笨熊", "GBK", "UTF-8") == toutf8(g"笨熊") == b"笨熊"